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Business Insider reported that a team of 30 Buddhist monks had originally recommended that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff devote an entire floor of the office “to just silence”. The room on every floor was a compromise.

Bates Smart associate director Kellie Payne told Information Age that these kind of spaces could be referred to as “library zones”.

She said that every project her firm worked on “will have some element of wellbeing or breakout space” in the design.

“We have the same designers working on five star hotels as we do on workplaces, so they bring those same skills into the workplace,” Payne said.

While incorporating wellbeing spaces into workplace design is in vogue, in technology companies it is often paired with perks like in-house chefs or staff that are dedicated to employee wellbeing.